When Randy Bailey threw his borrowed Survivor buff into the fire last Thursday (he had left his own at camp, only to be lectured about it), he was sending a message to his buddies: Boston Rob will stab you in the back.
Clearly there is no love lost between these competitors, and Randy was quick to pontificate on that animosity with us in a brief phone chat:
TVGuide.ca: Randy, I thought you were going to be around a little longer, what happened?
Randy Bailey: Boston Rob is what happened.
TVG: I hear you’re going around talking a bit of smack about him this week.
RB: Last week I did. I’m not going to get my blood pressure up quite so high this week.
TVG: Being caustic doesn’t equate being a villain, but it seems as though you’re really embracing that title with a lot of the comments and whatnot you’re making.
RB: You’re right, there are two types of Villains: there’s the type that screws people over like Boston Rob and Russell and there’s the kind like myself and Coach who tell it like it is. The short answer to that is I’m giving people what they want. If I go out bitter and angry they would have nothing to write about.
TVG: But is seems like you kind of like being that guy, no?
RB: You gotta try to set the record straight. What you’re seeing is not always perfectly accurate. Boston Rob is a control freak.
TVG: Well we know he won’t last with Russell in this game, but what about some of the alliances we aren’t seeing? What’s the deal with Tyson and Courtney?
RB: I don’t know how big of an alliance that is or if they’re just friends, you know — snuggle buddies.
TVG: Who was your snuggle buddy?
RB: I don’t think I slept in the eight or nine days I was out there.
TVG: Last week Stephenie told us the Heroes would sit around camp and talk about who had a bigger endorsement deal. What are the egos really like on the Villains?
RB: The Heroes tribe had more of an ego problem, but yeah. Because Jerri, Rob and Parvati were probably the three biggest Survivors because they had played twice before. Maybe Rob talked about it a bit. Rob’s stories were memorized from the Season 8 DVD extra features.
TVG: What about Coach, are his stories still outlandish?
RB: Coach is great. Whether or not they’re true doesn’t even matter, they’re entertaining.
TVG: What did you guys do for two days without any challenges going on? How did you pass the time?
RB: Danielle would call a meeting and try to spell out the new design of the new shelter, and Tyson, Coach, Boston Rob and I would put it together while the girls worked on their suntans.
TVG: Why?!?
RB: That’s Survivor. Girls don’t have to work after Day 1. Not to put down Sandra or Jerri, because they were definitely pulling their weight.
TVG: Did James ever apologize for that steroid-like attack on you?
RB: He did come up to me after the challenge and attempt to apologize. I pretty much shut him down. I used a lot of four letter words so it obviously didn’t make the show. I accept the apology now, but that’s after months of healing. When I lost I knew I was going home and the last thing I wanted to do was get hit in the head with that sack, or whatever it was.
TVG: What are your thoughts on the way this game has changed, with contestants calling out pre-formed alliances and girls refusing good food?
RB: Yeah … I don’t like the direction the game has gone, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Survivor airs Thursdays, 8 p.m. ET, Global/CBS.
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